Theodore Tso wrote:> > If this is your random eject out from your HP laptop problem, note> that random ejects while the card is writing can cause corruption of> the flash translation layer (FTL), which for some really crappy cards,> can permanently damage them; hopefully most of those are gone from the> market, but I wouldn't be positive about that. The better ones will> have some kind of journalling scheme for their FTL...>

I have seen flash cards die permanently from having a partition table itdidn't like written to it. Yes, the microcontroller on the flash cardtried to interpret the partition table, assumed to be MS-DOS style, andwould crash.